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This is an interesting comment and made me consider various scenarios and situations. For one instance, 'Right to Live' would mean we can eat/use animal produc
by RikNieu 9y ago
This is an interesting comment and made me consider various scenarios and situations.
For one instance, 'Right to Live' would mean we can eat/use animal products anymore - but what about plants then? If you listen to the RadioLab episode Smart Plants, who knows what will be discovered about them in the future.
And for most of humanity, most cultures have survived on animal consumption and animal products. Also, would these laws be enforceable on animals too? How would you feed predators and omnivores?
But what about instead of instead of specific rights like those afforded to people, we adopt more general 'kindness' rights to other living beings. For instance; the right of any animal to not being tortured, the right of kept animals to not be subjected to reasonable sized spaces(however that might be determined), the right of kept animals to medical treatment, the right of kept animals to the food it would be consuming in nature, ect.
Not sure how this would all be controlled and enforced(or even how this applies to current animal rights laws), but interesting to think about.
- cryptonector 9y agoOne might say that obligate carnivores (e.g., felines) get to eat other animals. Humans aren't quite obligate carnivores (though some of us might feel that we are :)... We already do have animal cruelty laws -- we already forbid cruelty to animals. And we forbid hunting of endangered species' individuals. Some jurisdictions have laws about how much space domesticated animals must be accorded to live in. So it's not like we accord animals no rights.